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       Key statistics on the NHS activity?
   DIR By: admini5
       Date: May 11, 2015, 3:23 am
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       - The NHS deals with over 1 million patients every 36 hours.
       - In 2013/14 there were 64 per cent more operations completed by
       the NHS compared to 2003/04, with an increase from 6.712m to
       11.030m.
       - The total annual attendances at Accident & Emergency
       departments was 21.779m in 2013/14, 32 per cent higher than a
       decade earlier (16.517m).
       - The 95 per cent standard to see patients within 4 hours of
       arrival at Accident & Emergency departments was achieved in 21
       weeks during 2014.
       - There were 15.462m total hospital admissions in 2013/14, 32
       per cent more than a decade earlier (11.699m).
       - The total number of outpatient attendances in 2013/14 was
       82.060m, an increase of 8.8 per cent on the previous year
       (75.456m).
       - In the year to September 2014, 418,661 NHS patients chose
       independent providers for their elective inpatient care. There
       were 688,977 referrals made by GPs to independent providers for
       outpatient care during the same period.
       - There were 1.747m people in contact with specialist mental
       health services in 2013/14. 105,270 (6.0 per cent) spent time in
       hospital.
       - There were 21.706m outpatient and community contacts arranged
       for mental health service users in 2013/14.
       - 53,176 people were detained for more than 72 hours under the
       Mental Health Act in 2013/14.
       - 75.60 per cent of Red 1 ambulance calls were responded to
       within eight minutes in 2013/14.
       - There has been an 18.5 per cent increase in emergency
       incidents between 2007/08 and 2012/13, reaching 6.89m in the
       latter year.
       - At the end of January 2015, there were 2.920 million patients
       on the waiting list for treatment. 216,791 (7.4 per cent) had
       been waiting for longer than 18 weeks, compared to 189,612 (6.5
       per cent) at the same point in 2014.
       - Over the past three years the number of patients waiting
       longer than a year for treatment has declined from 5,898 in
       January 2012 to 441 in January 2015.
       - In the same period, the number waiting in excess of 26 weeks
       has declined from 70,059 to 67,205 (although that is second
       highest number in that period).
       - 88.7 per cent of people with admitted pathways (adjusted) were
       treated within 18 weeks of referral in January 2015, compared to
       90.4 per cent a year earlier.
       - 95.0 per cent of people with non-admitted pathways were
       treated or discharged within 18 weeks of referral in January
       2015, compared to 96.3 per cent a year earlier.
       - At the end of January 2015, 766,414 patients were on the
       waiting list for a diagnostic test. Of these, 2.4 per cent had
       been waiting in excess of six weeks.
       For further information, please visit :
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